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  • On a Knife's Edge: The Ukraine, November 1942–March 1943

    On a Knife's Edge by Buttar, Prit;

    The Ukraine, November 1942–March 1943

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
    • Date of Publication 31 October 2019
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781472835000
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages464 pages
    • Size 232x154x40 mm
    • Weight 700 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 24pp plate section b&w
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    Long description:

    From critically acclaimed Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar, this is the engrossing story of the often-overlooked German counteroffensive post-Stalingrad, and how it prevented the whole Axis front line from collapsing.

    The battle of Stalingrad was the turning point of World War II. The German capture of the city, their encirclement by Soviet forces shortly afterwards, and the hard-fought but futile attempts to relieve them, saw bitter attritional fighting and extremes of human misery inflicted on both sides.

    The war was not over. The surrender of General Friedrich von Paulus's army left Germany's eastern armies severely weakened, but the Red Army had suffered enormous losses as it overreached itself in trying to exploit its great victory. Germany would continue the fight, and the battles that took place in the winter of 1942/43 would show the tactical and operational skill of Erich von Manstein and the Wehrmacht as they attempted to avert total disaster.

    Drawing on first-hand accounts, On a Knife's Edge is a story of brilliant generalship, lost opportunities and survival in the harshest theatre of war.

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    Table of Contents:

    List of Maps
    Dramatis Personae

    Introduction
    Chapter 1: The Road to Crisis
    Chapter 2: The Hammer Falls: Uranus
    Chapter 3: A Paper-Thin Line
    Chapter 4: December: Winter Storm
    Chapter 5: December: Little Saturn
    Chapter 6: Now or Never
    Chapter 7: A Desperate Christmas
    Chapter 8: The Ostrogoszhsk-Rossosh Operation
    Chapter 9: The Struggle for Balance
    Chapter 10: February: Retreat from the Don
    Chapter 11: February: A War of Movement
    Chapter 12: February: The Swing of the Pendulum
    Chapter 13: Kharkov
    Chapter 14: Pause for Breath

    Notes
    Photography
    Bibliography
    Index
    About the Author

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